Didn’t like Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, a biting, hilarious, and terrifying social satire that takes race relations head-on? Get out! The film is the best-reviewed wide release of 2017 thus far, with a 99 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 83 on Metacritic—which, according to that aggregator’s ratings scale, translates to “universal acclaim.” (Vanity Fairliked it too.)

Until recently, notoriously contrarian film critic Armond White—whose negative Get Out review ruined its otherwise perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, causing a tiny Twitter tempest—was just about the only high-profile entertainment industry figure who wasn’t a vocal fan of the movie. As The Wrappoints out, though, he was joined this week by an unlikely compatriot: Samuel L. Jackson, who lodged a very specific complaint against the movie in an interview with New York’s Hot 97.

A caveat: Samuel L. Jackson has not actually seen Get Out yet. He does, however, take issue with its star: Black Mirror alum Daniel Kaluuya, a British actor playing an American man grappling with a very specifically American type of racism. “I tend to wonder what would that movie have been with an American brother [in the lead], who really understands that in a way,” Jackson said on air. “Because Daniel grew up in a country where, you know, they’ve been interracially dating for a hundred years . . . So what would a brother from America have made of that role?”

Jackson also cited Ava DuVernay’s celebrated 2014 film Selma, which cast another black, British actor—David Oyelowo—as quintessential American hero Martin Luther King Jr. “There are some brothers from America that could have been in that movie, that would have had a different idea of how King thinks, how King felt,” he explained. Instead, DuVernay and co. hired an English man, which Jackson believes may have been a matter of dollars and cents—not to mention Anglophilia. Black British actors are “cheaper than us, for one,” he said, laughing. “And they think they’re better trained, for some reason, than we are, because they’re classically trained.”

As Jackson indicates, questions about this very issue have cropped up before—around the time of Selma’s release, to be sure, but also when Steve McQueen’s12 Years a Slave took cinemas by storm in 2013. Both McQueen and his star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, were black British men telling a very American story—and that did not go unnoticed throughout the film’s long road to the Oscars, where it eventually won best picture. Ejiofor, for his part, addressed the topic in an interview with Indiewire, pointing out that the slave trade was an international phenomenon: “You can look at a very specific thing — it was very specifically an American story, but it has global elements,” he said. Producer Brad Pitt went even further at the film’s Toronto premiere, declaring that “it took a Brit”—McQueen—to ask the question of why there haven’t been more films about American slavery, perhaps because the topic is just too close for comfort for American filmmakers.

In 2013, Carmen Ejogo—the black British actress who played another American hero, Coretta Scott King, in Selma—had a similar theory about why black Brits may sometimes be better positioned to cut to the core of American race relations: “I didn’t go to school and learn about Coretta, and I have this one idea that was put in history books as to who she is or who she wasn’t,” she told Buzzfeed. “And now I’m going to have to reel that back in, and try and find something that doesn’t sit well with me in terms of what I was raised in. I didn’t know who Coretta was until I played her the first time. And I think I have permission—that’s the definition of the artist, in my opinion—to be a little deviant. It wasn’t as daunting as it might have been for an American actress. An African-American actress . . . that might have been a bit more of a challenge.”

Maybe some defenders of Kaluuya’s casting in Get Out would argue something similar. Though neither the actor nor Peele has yet responded to Jackson’s charges, John Boyega—a British actor who initially spoke in his regular voice when filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, only to switch to an American accent because his posh tones just didn’t sound right—chimed in on the controversy late Tuesday with a pointed tweet: